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Juan E. Armijo; Azucena Verdin – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
Values in the Latino community play a significant role in the identity development of Latino male college students and can have an impact on their college student success. Though often maligned in the literature, machismo, when focusing on the caballerismo attributes, can aid in the academic success of Latino men while in college, if channeled…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Cultural Capital, Hispanic American Students, Males
Sieglová, Dagmar – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
This contribution explores motivational factors from the perspective of students in order to design an effective approach to teaching. Its purpose is twofold. First, it pinpoints findings from a student needs analysis regarding their learning in relation to today's teaching reality. Second, the findings serve as the basis for proposing a…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, College Students
Thorburn, Malcolm – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
In recent years there has been a heightened interest in educating for well-being; the belief that even when beset by economic gloom, schools can be a civilising force for good and can help make young people's lives more fulfilling and meaningful. However, the relative lack of conceptual analysis on well-being values and how they can flourish in…
Descriptors: Well Being, Values, Individual Development, Educational Policy
Lin, Alex R.; Simpkins, Sandra D.; Gaskin, Erin R.; Menjívar, Cecilia – Applied Developmental Science, 2018
The limited understanding on why Latino parents endorse organized activities is problematic given that these beliefs can help elucidate why they overcome barriers to support their children's participation. In this study, we analyzed interviews from a diverse group of 34 Mexican-origin parents who resided in Arizona. Results of the study indicate…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Barriers
Godwin, Kimberly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation sought to examine the effects that the implementation of standard nine by the North American Interfraternity Conference had upon member behaviors with respect to academic achievement, alcohol consumption, career preparation, civic engagement, hazing, leadership development, sexual assault awareness/prevention, and values and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Leadership Training, North Americans

Rogers, Donald J. – Elementary School Journal, 1972
Formula for teaching fear is create an atmosphere in which achievement is valued over personal worth, in which blame is more common than understanding, and in which the opinion of others is more important than the opinion of self. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Educational Attitudes, Educational Environment
Stengel, Barbara S. – 1981
The concept of student success is open to many interpretations and assumptions. Although teachers strive for student success, success is a relative term, contingent upon the situation in which it arises. Generally, success is judged by prior conceptions and criteria; yet attribution of success can depend on the vantage point of the judge. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Higher Education, Individual Development
DRESSEL, PAUL L.; LEHMANN, IRVIN J. – 1962
A LONGITUDINAL STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE STUDENT CHANGE IN CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY, ATTITUDES IN STEREOTYPY, AND VALUE ORIENTATION WHILE IN AN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. CHANGES THAT OCCURRED WITH RESPECT TO THESE THREE CHARACTERISTICS WERE EXAMINED FROM 1 YEAR TO THE NEXT FOR 4 YEARS. STUDENT BACKGROUNDS, SUBJECT INTERESTS,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking, Educational Experience, Higher Education

Kramer, Howard C. – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1980
Findings suggest that the first year of college teaches freshmen that college is not the arena where experiences, feelings and values are to be encountered and examined. The admirable goal of education of the person may instead become a fragmented and parochial experience in specialized training. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Students, Higher Education

Magill, Samuel H. – Liberal Education, 1971
From an address given at the January 1971 annual meeting of the Council of Protestant Colleges and Universities. (Editor)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Church Related Colleges, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Haberman, Martin – 1987
This document explores how basic American cultural value patterns have influenced the nature of general studies, specialization, and professional education in programs of teacher education. The value patterns examined deal with individualism, the work ethic and the civic arts. These patterns are analyzed in terms of their control over what…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Background, Faculty Development, General Education
Fadale, LaVerna M.; Winter, Gene M. – Career Education Quarterly, 1978
Describes research project efforts in developmental studies programs for nontraditional students in New York two-year colleges and also identifies characteristics of occupational educational students enrolled in these programs who can be classified as successful. Student inventories indicated that personal value factors were important in academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Developmental Programs, Educational Research
Kohlberg, Lawrence – 1971
This address starts by explaining the educational philosphy of John Dewey. In this context, the central aims of education are cognitive and moral development. In a pluralistic society, the teaching of morals poses a grave problem and gives rise to a belief in moral and ethical relativity. This address proceeds to show what is wrong with ethical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes
Chauncey, Caroline, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2006
"Harvard Education Letter" is published bimonthly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This issue of "Harvard Education Letter" contains the following articles: (1) "R" is for Resilience: Schools Turn to "Asset Development" to Build on Students' Strengths (Nancy Walser); (2) Beyond Bargaining: What…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Resilience (Psychology), Adults, Social Support Groups
Gilbert, Elmira O. – 1979
To examine differential sex role orientations as one conceptual area indicative of psychological adjustments to modernization, questionnaires were administered to agriculture and home economics students at the University of Puerto Rico. There were two types of independent variables: parental (residence, educational attainment levels, family…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, College Students, Employed Parents
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